Welcome Air Services
p. 11 · Read in the full issue
Guinea Air Traders Provide Welcome Air Services
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul. June 1.
THE weekly Guinea Air Traders Ltd. service which leaves Lae each Mon day for Madang, Wewak, Rabaul and Kavieng (returning from Rabaul to Lae each Tuesday via Wewak and Madang), has now been operating for two months.
The service has been well received by the public of Rabaul and Kavieng, It is operated by C 47 aircraft, and apart from providing Kavieng with a welcome additional passenger and mail service, it also enables Kavieng to be supplied weekly with fresh meat, fruit, etc. The service gives the Rabaul public an additional mail service to Australia, as the aircraft connects with the southern-bound Qantas plane which leaves Lae each Wednesday, and also provides direct connection with Madang and Wewak, which hitherto could only be reached by first proceeding to Lae.
The Wewak-Rabaul link has been well supported by local planters and traders and, also, by the Administration, for the transportation of native labourers.
Captain T. Deegan, permanent crew captain of GAT, and traflic-officer, John Rowbotham, have become popular with the Rabaul and Kavieng public.